[Plib-devel] R: Is there any plan to release 1.8.6?

[Paolo L. <p.l...@ci...>]

Dears,

If you are interested in, I can in extremis contribute a VBO kind of leaf.

Since I have it ready and debugged it would take few days in the Christmas
holidays, yet what should be discussed and agreed is how to propose it in
the API, i.e. a new leaf type or replacement of the ssgVtxArray (presently
the leaf type is still ssgVtxArray yet the underlying mechanism is VBO.

Anyway we'd need to complete ssgVtxArray's methods with a new one dealing
with update/usage strategy, or it could even be set globally (e.g.
ssgSetVBOUsageMode).

I can also contribute with a pair of shaders (vertex, fragment) which
actually emulates standard fixed-function rendering pipeline functionalities
(+ bump mapping, spherical env mapping, and hardware shadow mapping), but
presently I manage shaders by pre/post draw callbacks, so some work would be
necessary to integrate this mechanism at state application.

Just let me know if we want to offer the gloriuos Plib this last effort, yet
I realize that the shader one has a large impact and could leave the library
with insufficient debug in its last version.

Paolo


PS: I can also contribute interfaces to the CyberX3D (VRML2/97, X3D) and to
the Assimp (many) model loading libraries. They significantly enlarge the
SSG 3D format loading capabilities with modern, more reliable or witha more
complete support loaders. Do  'contrib' section in the SVN?



> -----Messaggio originale-----
> Da: Steve Baker [mailto:st...@sj...] 
> Inviato: giovedì 22 dicembre 2011 17.35
> A: PLIB Developers
> Oggetto: Re: [Plib-devel] Is there any plan to release 1.8.6?
> 
> PLIB is no longer being maintained - it would take too much 
> work to bring it up to the latest OpenGL standards.
> 
> I don't plan any more releases.  I recommend that FlightGear 
> pulls their current version into their repository and make it 
> a part of FlightGear itself.
> 
>   -- Steve
> 
> Jari Häkkinen wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > PLIB development is slow and it is a long time since the 
> 1.8.5 release.
> > It would be nice to have a 1.8.6 version released since 
> there are some 
> > fixes in the source code repository that resolves issues for 
> > flightgear
> > (http://www.flightgear.org) users. The flightgear project 
> is preparing 
> > for a new release after new year.
> >
> > Can someone of the maintainers please release 1.8.6? It should be 
> > fairly straightforward and I am willing to you with the release.
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Jari
> >
> > 
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>  -- Steve
> 
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